A customer is planning to deploy a vSAN cluster to host their in-house distributed ERP system. The hardware specifications for their server nodes include:

2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz 1TB memory

Which boot device is supported for the vSAN ESXi nodes for this customer?

A. A 16GB single-level cell (SLC) SATADOM device must be used.

B. A 4GB USB or SD device must be used.

C. A 16GB multiple-level cell (MLC) SATADOM device must be used.

D. ESXi Hosts must boot from a PMEM device.

A company hosts a vSAN 7 stretched cluster for all development workloads. The original sizing of a maximum of 250 concurrent workloads in the vSAN cluster is no longer sufficient and needs to increase to at least 500 concurrent workloads within the next six months.

To meet this demand, the original 8-node (4-4-1) cluster has recently been expanded to 16 nodes (8-8-1).

Which three additional steps should the administrator take to support the current growth plans while minimizing the amount of resources required at the witness site? (Choose three.)

A. Add the new vSAN witness appliance to vCenter Server.

B. Deploy a new large vSAN witness appliance at the witness site.

C. Configure the vSAN stretched cluster to use the new vSAN witness.

D. Deploy a new extra large vSAN witness appliance at the witness site.

E. Upgrade the vSAN stretched cluster to vSAN 7.0 U1.

F. Configure the new vSAN witness as a shared witness appliance.

During a maintenance action on a vSAN node, a vSAN administrator noticed that the default repair delay time is about to be reached.

Which two commands must be run to extend the time? (Choose two.)

A. /etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd restart

B. esxcli system settings advanced set -o /VSAN/ClomRepairDelay -i 50

C. esxcli system settings advanced set -o /VSAN/ClomRepairDelay -i 80

D. /etc/init.d/clomd restart

E. /etc/init.d/vsanobserver restart

A company has engaged a consultant to upgrade an existing vSAN cluster to vSAN 7.0 U1. The company

wants to ensure that the same vSAN process can be used in the future.

During the discovery phase, the consultant found the following information about the existing environment:

The vCenter Server is currently version 7.0.

The vSAN Cluster has the following configuration:

-vSAN version: 7.0

-Number of vSAN nodes: 6

-Encryption: enabled

-Deduplication and Compression: enabled

-Fault Domains: 1

-vSAN Capacity Utilization: 60% Each vSAN node has the following configuration:

-ESXi version: VMware vSphere 7.0

-CPU: 2 processors, 20 cores

-RAM: 1024GB RAM.

-Disk: 2 Cache SSDs and 6 Capacity SSDs

-Network: 4 x 10GbE All current hardware (which is from a single vendor) is listed on the vSAN Compatibility Guide for vSAN 7.

Which three recommendations should the consultant make to ensure that the vSAN cluster upgrade is completed? (Choose three.)

A. Upgrade all vSAN nodes to VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 using the baselines capability within VMware Update Manager (VUM).

B. Disable vSAN Encryption before starting the upgrade process.

C. Upgrade all vSAN nodes to VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 using the images capability within VMware Update Manager (VUM).

D. Set VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) to partially automated.

E. Upgrade to VMware vCenter Server 7.0 U1.

F. Choose the Allow reduced redundancy option.

An administrator is planning to deploy cloud-native workloads onto the vSAN Direct datastore. Which storage policy structure rule is supported?

A. Host-based rules

B. vVOL storage rules

C. Tag-based placement rules

D. Storage performance-based rules